Re: [gentoo-user] system won't stop....

2005-07-06 Thread Glenn Enright
On Tue, 05 Jul 2005 21:05, Digby Tarvin wrote: > On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 04:57:28PM +1200, Glenn Enright wrote: > Thus after verifying that everything is ok after initial boot to > runlevel 3, I can run telinit 5 to start the X server. > > The system I ssh'd from was a BSD/OS system at runlevel 5.

Re: [gentoo-user] system won't stop....

2005-07-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 5 Jul 2005 17:07:53 +0100, Digby Tarvin wrote: > However the default installation procedure leaves everything in > a single runlevel named 'default'. What I meant was that there > appears to be no standard for distributing services amoungst > different runlevels in gentoo. The default ins

Re: [gentoo-user] system won't stop....

2005-07-05 Thread Digby Tarvin
I didn't mean to imply that gentoo didn't support runlevels. It has both named runlevels and the traditional numeric runlevels which are layered on top of them via a table in /etc/inittab. The default runlevel is specified numerically as in: id:3:initdefault: and can be controlled numerica

Re: [gentoo-user] system won't stop....

2005-07-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 5 Jul 2005 10:05:16 +0100, Digby Tarvin wrote: > Gentoo doesn't seem to have defined a standard way of maintaining > different runlevels, http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2&chap=4 runlevels are defined, by name not number, in /etc/runlevels. You can choose the

Re: [gentoo-user] system won't stop....

2005-07-05 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 04:57:28PM +1200, Glenn Enright wrote: > > I logged in via ssh from another system and ran 'telinit 3' to try to > > shutdown the X server. This had no effect - 'who -r' continued to > > report runlevel 5. > > The default gentoo runlevel is 3. Unless youve changed that then

Re: [gentoo-user] system won't stop....

2005-07-03 Thread Glenn Enright
> I logged in via ssh from another system and ran 'telinit 3' to try to > shutdown the X server. This had no effect - 'who -r' continued to > report runlevel 5. The default gentoo runlevel is 3. Unless youve changed that then doing telinit 3 is largely pointless. What runlevel was the system that

Re: [gentoo-user] system won't stop....

2005-07-03 Thread Digby Tarvin
> Please, be more specific about the place where this happens. Do you > click shutdown from Gnome or KDE? Do you run shutdown -h now from from > console and so on. The last time this happened was after an unsuccessful attempt to switch the console from X to a text console with the CTL-ALT-F1 seque

Re: [gentoo-user] system won't stop....

2005-07-03 Thread Petteri Räty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Digby Tarvin wrote: > Anyone experienced any problems with their gentoo system refusing > to shutdown..?? Yes, with 2.6.12 gentoo-sources and inotify. The system freezes if you try to umount a ntfs partition after using it. > > My system, running on

Re: [gentoo-user] system won't stop....

2005-07-03 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Sunday 03 July 2005 14:27, Digby Tarvin wrote: > Anyone experienced any problems with their gentoo system refusing > to shutdown..?? Shuts down fine here. Uwe -- 95% of all programmers rate themselves among the top 5% of all software developers. - Linus Torvalds http://www.uwix.iway.na (la

[gentoo-user] system won't stop....

2005-07-03 Thread Digby Tarvin
Anyone experienced any problems with their gentoo system refusing to shutdown..?? My system, running on a Tyan motherboard with twin PIII processors and GeForce4 Ti 4200 display, seems to be unstoppable... I suspect it is the X server which is refusing to stop, but I am not sure what is getting i